When the 1991 GMC Syclone debuted, few people expected a compact pickup to challenge some of the world’s fastest sports cars.

In the era of V12-powered SUVs with Prancing Horse badges and 700 horsepower pickup trucks, perhaps a hot rod GMC truck is a little less shocking. It's easy to overlook how unprecedented it was upon ...

In the '90s, people didn't get to have their automotive cake and eat it too. That's to say, a car generally had one job, rather than having the capability to do multiple different tasks, such as trips ...

As product planners are wringing their hands and sweating bullets over new bells and whistles that they hope will attract reluctant buyers, one GM division is making a bold move to take command of the ...

Nowadays, it's easy to take performance trucks for granted with mega-horsepower brutes like the Ram TRX and Ford Raptor available to anybody with a thick enough wallet, but thirty years ago, the idea ...

How useful is a pickup truck that can only carry 500 lbs in its bed and tow 2000 lbs? Not very, unless your criteria for a pickup truck isn't hauling stuff, but winning drag races. In which case, GMC ...

Nigel first entered the world of automotive journalism in the mid-80s, working for what was then the “bible” of weekly automotive content - Motoring News. Those were the days of tip-tap typewriters, ...

Special Vehicle Engineering, the tuner best known for building 1,000-hp Yenko Camaros and Corvettes, announced today that it had licensed the Syclone name from GMC and that it planned to build a ...

Right now, if GMC aficionados reminisce about the short but good old days of the high-performance Syclone, there’s one modern solution. Specialty Vehicle Engineering (SVE) takes the latest GMC Canyon ...

In the late 1990s, Buick engineers came up with a ridiculously fast Chevrolet S-10 pickup with the turbocharged 3.8-liter V6 engine of the Grand National GNX. They pitched their strip-slaying truck to ...

When a rare GMC Syclone was stolen from an owner who had fallen on hard times, it looked likely the performance pickup truck wouldn’t be recovered. But an upstanding member of the GMC truck community ...

Specialty Vehicle Engineering is back in a big way with a GMC Canyon-based performance truck that recalls a cult classic. It all started with Gran Turismo. From those early PlayStation days, Sean was ...